An odour of sanctity

Frank Yerby

***9th century Spain--an age of brutal battles to the death and dungeons equipped with thumbscrews and spiked boots.*** An age of perfumed harems where acts of love were spiced with the erotic mysteries of the Orient. a time when merchants, princes, thieves and whores, Christians, Islamic Arabs, Berbers, Yemenites, Greeks and Jews were trapped in an inferno of embattled peoples and faiths. ***Only such an age could have spawned Alaric Tendisson - the mighty Spanish nobleman whose extraordinary capacity for love was matched only by the violence of his destiny.*** **GOODREADS member reviews:** ***Cliff Morrison rated it 3 of 5 Stars - liked it:*** Whether Frank Yerby's novels were set in the past or the present, his style could be rhetorically long-winded, his characters wildly inconsistent and his overall plots haphazardly developed. Despite all that, in "An Odor of Sanctity"...